BALTIMORE, May 4—The cops have yet again exposed themselves as the dogs of the ruling class. Today was the commemoration of four students getting shot to death by National Guard soldiers during a protest at Kent State University in 1970. Today, following in those fascist footsteps, kkkops at Morgan State University (MSU) arrested a protester for leading chants during the 145th West Wednesday rally demanding justice for Tyrone West and for all victims of police terror.
This rally on the campus and the rally on the sidewalk just outside MSU, a historically Black university, focused on the deadly role of campus cop David Lewis, who participated with City cops in the police murder of Tyrone West on July 18, 2013. The Black campus cops and an MSU boss Floyd Taliaferro, Director of University Center & Student Activities, were apathetic about MSU’s own cop’s participation in the murder of Tyrone.
Before this evening’s arrest, West Wednesday protestors marched across campus and entered the student center, by the display of former MSU students in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Trying to Intimidate Us
The order to aggressively force the protestors out of the student center came without warning. This student is now facing multiple charges. The criminal injustice system sent him to jail and held him overnight at Central Booking. Other MSU students in the group were harassed by the cops and told to report to the campus police station the next morning.
West Wednesday protestors, including PLP members, took turns waiting at Central Booking until our friend was released the next day.
The group of protestors learned yet again that cops, Black or white, carry out the bosses’ orders and do not ”serve and protect” either students or workers. This is a significant lesson, as we are in a city where the majority of cops are Black. As the chant says, “White cop, Black cop, all the same! Racist terror is the name of their game!”
Build Communism
All of this occurred less than a week after some fighters from the West Wednesday travelled to New York City to participate in the revolutionary May Day march led by Progressive Labor Party.
The most important measure of success in the fight against police terror, or in any other reform struggle, is the growth of communist understanding and the growth of Progressive Labor Party.
That’s the development that enables us to be stronger and stronger in future struggles, including the fight to entirely defeat capitalism and build, instead, the egalitarian world of sisterhood and brotherhood that we urgently need!